My 15 month old wont stop climbing!

[lanna]

I need help! as the title suggests my darling little Harper, who has climbed things since before she could walk, wont stop climbing. it is now the kitchen chairs and table (and into everything thats on it!!!!):eek: I am now waiting for the day she tries to climb the pantry shelves. She cannot get up to the kitchen bench as we are in the middle of renovating and we havent put our handles on the doors(thank goodness) But she will figure out the drawers soon enough.
My problem is that i cannot keep her away from the table, every chance she gets, she is there getting ontop of it. It doesnt matter how i say no to her, if i try to occupy her with something else - nothing is working! The thought of her falling off scares the **** outta me as she has already suffered a broken collarbone a day before she turned 1 (and yes it was from climbing the lounge suite!!!!) but thats another story in itself.
My older two weren't climbers until they were much older, so this is new for me
Does anyone have the same problem or any ideas?????
TIA

[V8]

I have the same problem with my 14 month old. He can climb onto the tables, tries to climb his change table, climbs over the back of the couch, everything he wants to climb! He is my first, so i have no idea what to do, just have to keep an eye on him i guess.

[Tabbyguizmo]

i have a 22month old and she still climbs. this might sound weird but if she's going to climb teach her how to correctly we had the same problem only mine started at 4 1/2 months now she walks up and down our staircase like an adult does and she has never hurt herself, if she is going to climbing on the table teach her to climb the chair and put somthing there on the table in reach. teaching with improve there climbing and it works out safer.

[SnoozesWithCats]

:laughing: join the club! this is DD2 to a tee, she's a little monkey girl. Her current fascination is with the bathroom sink - there's a way she climbs up round the bath and just stands on the slippery countertop with her back to the hard tiles below :eek:

We're trying to train her out of it the same way we trained her not to eat from the cat's bowl - that is, as soon as we see her doing what she's not meant to, a firm "no" and straight out of the room with the door shut. I can't say it's having great success - part of the problem is that the bathroom is out of the way, so she can get in many happy minutes playing before she's whisked away.

Have you got any allowed climbing places for her? That's a great help with us - we've got a slide out the back, she can climb up the ladder as much as she wants, and it's still tricky enough to test her skills and be interesting.

The thing I'm completely paranoid about at the moment is the bath water - you might remember last year there was a post about a little boy who drowned falling into the leftover bathwater his parents had forgotten to drain. I could so see Julia doing that - she can get into the bath friom a standing start, no problems.

Hang in there! It does get better - soon enough all our children will be old enough to bribe them to be good! :p

[lanna]

thanks for the replies. I know that i will just have to put up with it, maybe i was hoping for a miracle or someone had found a cure lol....
as for the bathroom, we have a lock up high so she cant get in there, and if she does our basin is a pedestal so hopefully she wont try to climb that!!!!:eek:
Harper just thinks it is so funny when we are trying to tell her no - i think that its from the other older kids chuckling behind our backs as we are trying to do it.. it doesnt help!!!!!!
It was a good idea to have a slide or something to climb as well, will have to get one.
once again thanks for the replies.

[Ky]

My dd got onto the kitchen bench at 7 months - I have no idea how, but she got up!

Both of my kids have been like this and I still can't leave a ladder or anything else tempting unattended. My ds got about 30ft up a gum in our yard the other day (he's nearly 4) and was perfectly calm about it - Daddy wasn't though!

My dd is getting better (nearly 6) as she has a newly discovered fear of heights - go figure!

When my dd was 12 months old, I was accused of beating her as she had so many bruises all over her. I couldn't get through to the nurse that she was a very active kid who climbed, so I finally spat the dummy and walked out leaving dd with her for ½ an hour! (having stated I would be back in ½ an hours, so she knew I was returning)

I got back to find a very frazzled nurse and a little girl with fresh bruises! She had climbed the desk, bookshelves, chairs, run into a door frame, fallen several times and generally been herself! I was given a very sincere apology and when the same issue came up at my ds's 12 month check, I showed them my dd's book and they backed down straight away!

Ok, so when they are little the fact that they are extremely active and dextrous makes life tough, but as they get older, you find you have a child who has no weight problems due to being unable to sit still for too long. This in itself has to be a good thing!

[SassyMummy]

I think it's just part of a toddler's life and growing skills...

I remember reading in some parenting book somewhere that all you can (and all you should) really do is make sure dangerous objects are locked away and hope for the best.

According to the book, climbing was a part of physical development, and should not be discouraged. It suggested that perhaps it's a good idea to get a backyard playgym or something, and let your little one climb away on that. Or take them to the park.

Perhaps you can store your dining chairs ON the table, to make it that much more difficult for your little one to get up on the table...

I think it's a live-and-learn thing... kids will soon learn that if they climb on stuff, there's a great chance they'll fall off and hurt themselves. Any injuries shouldn't be life-threatening... so I guess all you really can do is make sure the house is as safe as it can be... or watch them like a hawk.

It sucks, I know... DD is nearly 18 months and always climbing... but I guess it's just a part of what she has to do in order to learn...

[JATS]

Another mum of a climber here!

Tom recently got on top of our dining table without the aid of a chair or anything else, and pushed our expensive SLR off the table onto the tiles! (no damage thank god but now we keep it in the top of the bedroom cupboard!)

He used to open the kitchen/bathroom cupboards und use the shelves at steps to get onto the benches! Had to put locks on the cupboard doors, only now he can open those too!

His main obsession is the computer desk, 2 computers, laptop and all-in-one printer/scanner and usually our video camera, plenty to play with!

can't leave a clibmer alone for 5min!

[pinkandblue]

Hi

I have the same problem. My DS is 13 months and climbs everywhere. I dont mind him climbing, but the problem is he falls off something every single day. Is it bad for him to keep falling everyday? Can it do some damage to him later on when he gets older?We have tiled floors so its not a soft landing when he falls either.

Natalie